Events archive

29.12.2005 Kingdom in Motion is a film weekend designed to promote awareness of the campaign for the displaced people in Nepal. Six films will be screened in on 13 and 14 January, in London. There will also be an exhibition of photographs and writing by Bhutanese refugee children, a discussion seminar focusing on current issues in Nepal, and a Himalayan beat club night. See: Events

27.12.2005 Bargehouse Gallery at London's Oxo Tower House is currently hosting two exhibitions - Impunity, on the murders of women in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico and in Guatemala City; and Picture This: Your war is not with me, paintings by Damien Hirst, Sam Taylor Wood, John Leach and others, with all works for sale in aid of the charity War Child.

22.12.2005 What are the sources of terrorism in the developing world and the implications of the "war on terror" for countries struggling to get out of poverty? Read the transcript of a panel discussion that grappled with these questions.

21.12.2005 March of the Penguins got caught up in the controversy between Darwinism and “intelligent design”, with part of America's religious right claiming the documentary is a parable about monogamy and creationism. But such absurdities aside, it is simply an enormously enjoyable film.

14.12.2005 Amnesty's London season of films that tackle rights issues ends with Hotel Rwanda, feature film set during the genocide. The screening will be followed by a talk and Q&A with invited guests.

14.12.2005 Humanity can't carry on burying or burning rubbish - 27 million tonnes of it are already produced every year. London students have been coming up with ideas to promote reducing, re-using and recycling waste and visitors to the Dana Centre in London on 24 January will have the opportunity hear the ideas and meet winners of a recycling competition.

10.12.2005 Hazel Thompson's photographs of jailed Filipino children have - not surprisingly - won an award. But the abuse they spotlight extends far beyond The Philippines: it is part of a shocking worldwide phenomenon, with one million children currently imprisoned illegally.

09.12.2005 Disappointment was the mood in the corridors of the climate change conference after the US blocked attempts to include the Mauritius Strategy for Small Island Developing States (SIDS), previously accepted as the UN mechanism for catering for the special development challenges of SIDS. Read Tom Mitchell's blog from Montreal.
* US isolated after climate talks walkout

07.12.2005 Discussion on the "devastating" rise in recruitment of health professionals from developing countries to work in Britain, 19 December, London.

07.12.2005 Raise a laugh, raise a 20lb bar of Toblerone, raise some money for the Burma Campaign, 27 January, London: Mark Thomas, John Hegley and John Lenahan.

05.12.2005 Global Oil demand has already started to outstrip supply and world oil production will peak ("Peak Oil") during the current decade. This impending crisis will be discussed in London on 14 December.

05.12.2005 'For Miles Litvinoff, just one of the 8,000 people who marched to the US Embassy in London on Saturday as part of worldwide demonstrations over climate change, the personal really is the political: his family is in Chile and he feels he can no longer justify the environmental consequences of flying there - the future everyone is going to have to face.' - Peter Armstrong reports on the protest.

03.12.2005 Tourism Concern helps you look at the ethics of your next holiday, gap year or overseas trip, 10 December, London and invites campaigners to join the movement, 11 December.

01.12.2005 The blog at www.globalvoicesonline.org claims to be the leading online portal and guide to international blogs beyond North America and Western Europe, the hub of a growing community of international bloggers who want to build a better global conversation. Global Voices, London, 10 December, offers a chance to take stock of what has been achieved and brainstorm about what a global citizens’ media community might accomplish.

01.12.2005 "I've lived in four different countries in my life, but I've never left home." It sounds like a riddle of the Sphinx, but the quote from Homeland - about Ruthenian villagers who share language, culture and history but are divided by a fence - is typical of the real-life experiences vividly captured by young film-makers for the One World Broadcasting Trust’s student bursary scheme. Gareth Benest reports.